{"id":551,"date":"2020-06-24T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/?p=551"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:01:24","slug":"publish-open-access-with-sage-including-imeche-and-rsm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-sage-including-imeche-and-rsm\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish Open Access with Sage (including IMechE and RSM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in 1000+ subscription journals in the current <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sagepub.com\/en-gb\/eur\/sage-journals-packages\">SAGE Premier package<\/a>,\u00a0 the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sagepub.com\/en-gb\/eur\/imeche\">IMechE Journal Collection<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sagepub.com\/en-gb\/eur\/rsm\">Royal Society of Medicine Collection\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0PLEASE NOTE, THIS ONLY COVERS THE HYBRID JOURNALS IN THESE LISTS, NOT THE FULLY GOLD OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS.\u00a0 Original research papers, review papers, brief communications, short reports and case studies are included in the agreement, (book reviews, editorials, abstracts and news items are <strong>excluded<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this agreement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sage will inform all co-authors that the article can be published open access at no additional cost. Within 14 days, one author must confirm that the authors agree\u00a0to publish open access, and choose a licence (CC BY or CC BY-NC).\u00a0If the\u00a0funder\u00a0of the paper requires CC BY, ensure that you choose it (<a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.westminster.ac.uk\/copyrightresearchers\/creativecommons\">More information on Creative Commons \/ CC licences<\/a>).\u00a0 As a University we strongly encourage you to opt for the CC-BY licence, if appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>You must be the corresponding author who is affiliated with the University of Westminster at the point of acceptance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Book reviews, editorials, abstracts and news items are <strong>excluded.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If you are no longer affiliated with either Westminster, or another eligible institution, at the point of acceptance of your paper, you do not qualify.<\/li>\n<li>You are advised to use your institutional email address instead of your private email address, and to state your Westminster affiliation, to enable Sage to better identify you as eligible under the agreement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fully open access (gold) journals are not included in this agreement<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You do not need to contact us to gain permission. SAGE will contact all eligible authors to inform them of the Open Access agreement with Jisc and to invite them to the <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sagepub.com\/en-gb\/eur\/sage-open-access-portal\">SAGE Open Access Portal<\/a>\u00a0to take up the offer as soon as their accepted article has been received into SAGE\u2019s Production department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sagepub.com\/en-gb\/eur\/open-access-agreements-at-sage\/united-kingdom\"><strong>Sage Agreement<\/strong><\/a> for more detail, and this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sagepub.com\/docs\/default-source\/rp-pages\/info-for-authors\/oa-agreements\/eligible-journals\/(5000020119)-(premtr25)-sage-premier-read-and-publish-2025-list.xlsx?sfvrsn=e56d3b31_10&amp;_gl=1*rcnvxb*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTQ4MjM2ODU5Mi4xNzY5NDI4NTIw*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3Njk0Mjg1MjAkbzEkZzAkdDE3Njk0Mjg1MjAkajYwJGwwJGgxMTcxMjEwMjgz\">list of Subscription journals<\/a>, included in this agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any questions, including checking whether particular journals are included, email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:repository@westminster.ac.uk\">repository@westminster.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This agreement covers the period 1 January 2026 \u2013 31 December 2028.<\/p>\n<p>A quick note on other publishers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>American Psychological Association (APA)<\/b>:\u00a0We have a similar agreement for APA journals.\u00a0 Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-in-the-american-psychological-association-apa-journals\/\">APA post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM):\u00a0<\/strong>We have an agreement covering journal articles and conference papers published by the ACM. Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-acm\/\">ACM post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cambridge University Press<\/strong>:\u00a0We have a similar agreement for CUP journals.\u00a0 Please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-cambridge-university-press\/\">CUP post<\/a> for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><b>Elsevier<\/b>: We have a similar agreement for Elsevier journals.\u00a0 Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-elsevier-journals\/\">Elsevier post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public Library of Science (PLOS):\u00a0<\/strong>an agreement is now in place, allowing Westminster authors to publish in the gold open access journals: PLOS ONE,\u00a0PLOS Genetics, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and PLOS Pathogens, without having to pay individual APCs.\u00a0 More details in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-without-charge-in-select-public-library-of-science-plos-journals\/\">PLOS post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Springer Nature<\/strong>:\u00a0 We already have a similar agreement for some Springer journals.\u00a0 Please see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-springer-compact\/\">Springer post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail, and a link to a list of eligible titles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor &amp; Francis: <\/strong>Taylor &amp; Francis Open Select journals (including Routledge) now also has a &#8216;read and publish&#8217; agreement.\u00a0 See the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-taylor-and-francis-journals\/\">T&amp;F post<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wiley:<\/strong> We have a similar agreement for Wiley journals.\u00a0 Please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-wiley\/\">Wiley post<\/a>\u00a0for more detail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Any questions: email <a href=\"mailto:repository@westminster.ac.uk\">repository@westminster.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Westminster may publish their articles through Gold Open Access in 1000+ subscription journals in the current SAGE Premier package,\u00a0 the\u00a0IMechE Journal Collection\u00a0and the\u00a0Royal Society of Medicine Collection\u00a0\u00a0PLEASE NOTE, THIS ONLY COVERS THE HYBRID JOURNALS IN THESE LISTS, NOT THE FULLY GOLD OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS.\u00a0 Original research papers, review &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/publish-open-access-with-sage-including-imeche-and-rsm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publish Open Access with Sage (including IMechE and RSM)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21,42,61,76,95,107],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scholarly-communications","tag-apc","tag-gold-open-access","tag-open-access","tag-repository","tag-springer","tag-westminsterresearch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2771,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/2771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/researchoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}